Authors : V. Geetha and Hari Prasad
Abstract: Security attacks in MANETs can happen in any layer of the protocol stack. The attack can be a active attack or passive attack. In network layer attack by misbehaving nodes called “malicious nodes” can disrupt the proper functioning of the underlying routing protocol by corrupting the routing information in terms of tailoring false routing information or “impersonating other nodes”. Few malicious node attack patterns are Blackhole attack wormhole attack or tunnelling, grayhole attack etc. In this study, we have proposed a direct and indirect approach based reputation scheme framework for detecting blackhole attacks in MANETS. But this proposed framework improvises the AODV protocol towards achieving the goal of detecting the malicious nodes attack in MANETS. Thus, improving the performance of reputation approach is shown and analysed using the throughput as a metric in this study.
V. Geetha and Hari Prasad, 2016. Direct and Indirect Approach Based Reputation Scheme Framework for Detecting Blackhole Attacks in Manets. International Journal of Soft Computing, 11: 492-496.